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SquaredError comments on Stupid Questions September 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: polymathwannabe 02 September 2015 06:26PM

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 04 September 2015 08:59:54PM 2 points [-]

A pulsing motion of what sort, and how tightly do you draw a line around 'big bang'? We can see by direct observation that things have been continually getting further apart for the past 13-odd billion years or so, and the earliest thing we can see is consistent with there not being a whole lot of structure before then.

Even if the behavior in the very beginning is different than we usually expect, that seems like a big bang to me.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 September 2015 01:58:26PM 0 points [-]

What I have in mind is that it's just a local turbulence in a much larger structure, for example. It seems that we have very little data about a huge structure, so fitting any model to it at this point might give us a fairly large margin of error (especially since we extrapolate from a theory that we know that is incomplete).

What are your thoughts on this finding: http://www.caltech.edu/news/farthest-galaxy-detected-47761